Michael Kalb

Michael Kalb

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Shahid 2024 (6)

Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor is forced to confront her family legacy and German bureaucracy when she seeks to remove an overly symbolic word from her name.
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Saudade 2019

When Afro-Brazilian filmmaker Denize Galiao starts feeling that sorrow of loss again, her father sighs and says, “Forget about saudade and carry on.” An old Brazilian legend says that the African gods created the feeling of saudade to remind people where they come from and where they are. And that’s just what she’s suffering from. Twenty years ago Galiao emigrated to Germany, where her dream of becoming a filmmaker came true. But the papayas there never taste as good as in Brazil. Galiao’s parents live in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, and thanks to Skype her birth country is never far away. Now that her parents need more support, the sense of dislocation is really making its presence felt. “You are physically present, while your mind is somewhere else.” This short film explores and defines the feeling in various ways, both positive and negative.
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Solastalgia 2022

Edda has been overcome by solastalgia: anguish over the destruction of our planet. Seeking refuge on the North Frisian island of Pellworm, she meets Sophie, a young farmer who is suing the German government for her right to a future, in this artistic, veracious immersion in the lives of the Fridays for Future generation.
Michael Kalbron

Michael Kalbron

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Alice in Wasteland 2006 (5.5)

Alice and her friends plan to make it rich by robbing an armoured truck, but everything goes haywire when Alice is shot. She wakes up from a year-long coma to find herself down the rabbit hole in a world of pimps, pushers and police payoffs.